Clocks

I just hit upon one of my inane NON-timesavers. While coming to work today, I decided to ruminate/meditate/what-have-you on the reason why I'm always late for work... Apart from the top 3 reasons
1. I LOVE MY SLEEP TIME
2. I restain myself from beating up someone.
3. I restrain myself from just ending it all.

However these cannot be improved upon. So while taking my daily rickshaw (it's a no suspension motorized souped-up tricycle driven by local motorheads who are paid (by us) to scare the beejeezus out of us and loosen all body joints .) I hit upon one of the possible reasons.
To put some context into this, a one-way journey has 4 segments.
Seg 1. Rick Ride from House to Rail Station
Seg 2. Train To Point A.
Seg 3. Rick Ride from Point A to office.
Seg 4. I obviously don't know to count

I have 5 clocks all of which show different times.
Clock 1. This is the home wall clock. This appears to be in sync with the TV programmes half hour blocks and Dad won't let me change it (BBC time compliant!)
Clock 2. This is my emergency alarm clock that is burdened with the fruitless job of waking me up. This is 15 mins ahead of clock one to compensate for Snooze delay.
Clock 3. This is time set on my cell-phone. This is 5 mins behind Clock2. This is the one I refer when I'm on the move.
Clock4. This is the clock hanging at the rail station. I heavily suspect some morbid creature toying with it because every morning my train leaves me stranded after a 0-60 frenzy dash. I then make a note of the difference to my phone-time. Only to be screwed royally again the next day. Touche!
Clock5. is the office clock, which is always 2 mins behind and announces my late in-times. I stand by it panting and wheezing !

Even with 5 clocks if I can't be on time, why the hell bother !! I'm gonna sleep extra tomorrow to appease my hurt punctuality.

1 comment:

Venkat said...

Abbe ek clock leke kush rehna! You're getting paranoid about jack all and you're not even a cryptographer!